Intersect Partners: Does the Incubator Model Still Work?

A decade ago, during the device industry's first financing crisis, medical device incubators played a crucial role in keeping small start-ups viable. But incubators themselves soon ran into problems, most notably in finding a sustainable financing model for themselves. California-based Intersect Partners has been one of the most successful incubators but it, too, needed to find a new model to make incubation viable.

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